Milk-bottle handle



C. BUTCHER.

MILK BOTTLE HANDLE. APPLICATION mm SEPT. 24. 1918.

1,315,481. fatentedse t. 9, 1919.

INVENTOR Char/es zzlchez:

NonRAbn'co WASHINGTON a c CHARLES BUTCHER, 0F SEATTLE, WASHINGTON.

MILK-BOTTLE H NDLE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 9, 1919.

Application filed September 24, 1918. Serial No. 255,448.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, CHARLns BUTCHER, a

citizen of the United States, and resident of larly designed for application to milk bottles and I have so illustrated it and shall describe its application to this particular purpose, although it will be understoodthat it may be applied to carryingother kinds of bottles.

The object of my invention is to provide a device which is simple and cheap in construction and which may be applied to bottles of this kind to serve as a handle or carrier therefor, thus making it much more convenient to carry such bottles than is possible without some device of this sort.

My invention comprises the novel constructions herein shown and described and then defined in the claims. The drawings show a preferred type of construction.

Figure 1 is a side view of an upper end of a milk bottle, showing one of my holders applied thereto.

Fig. 2 is a like view taken from a direction at 90 to that of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a view of the carrier itself taken on a plane just above. the portions whlch encircle the neck of the bottle.

Bottles of this particular type are all plO- vided with a protuberant ring 10 which encircles the mouth of the bottle at the upper end of the neck. The carrier is so designed as to have parts which closely encircle the neck and engage the under side of this protuberance to carrv the bottle thereby.

The carrier, as herein shown, comprises two parts which are made of wire and is also shown as having a handle member 1 consisting of a section of tube, as of wood, whlch surrounds the handle section of the Wire to make a slightly more convenient and engageable handle.

One section of the holder consists of the wire 2, which is centrally bent upon itself and has the greater part thereof twisted so as to prevent separation of the two portions. This twisting is largely non-essential. Short portions of the ends of this wire are bent laterally and curved to extend substantially half wayabouttheneck of the bottle; These curved sections 5 terminate, one in an eye 52 and the otherpreferably in an open eye 50, the ektreme tip of this arm preferably eX- tending outward toform a hook or short arm 51.

Another piece of wire 3 has its ends similarly bent to form curved sections 30 and 31, one of which,as 30, has its end bent into an eye 32 which engages the eye 52 of the other wire to form a hinged connection therewith. The other end 31 of the same wire is bent upwardly, as shown at 33, to form a hook which is adapted to engage with the hook or open eye 50 of the other member, so as to lock the two together. Its tip is then preferably bent outward to form a hook 34 which is complemental to the hook 51, these two being preferably so positioned that there will be a slight overlapping of their adjacent edges, as is clearly shown in Fig. 3.

When the parts are in position upon a bottle l, the hook 34 extends above and slightly overlaps the hook 51. To place them in this position, or to release them, it is thus neces sary to slightly spring one or both of these hooks in order to cause them to pass. The action is very analogous to the spring clasp often used on purses.

The central portion of the member 3 is bent upward to form a shank 35 and in this is formed an eye 36 which engages with the end of the member 2, as is clearly shown in Figs. "1 and 2. This upwardly extending shank 35 provides a certain amount of spring action which is available at the time of engaging pin or hook 33 with the open eye or hook 50 and also to permit the passing of the two arms 34 and 51.

While I consider the employment of the two arms 34: and 51 as desirable, I do not consider them as strictly essential. The device may be employed, although be somewhat less convenient, without these arms.

The above device may be quickly appliedto a milk bottle and will engage the neck thereof in such manner as to prevent removal, except as the hooks 33 and 50 are urposely disengaged. The handle 4 is a much more convenient way of carrying the bottle than to grasp the bottle by its neck. In consequence, dropping and breaking of the bottle is much less likely to occur.

What I claim as my invention is: y

1. A carrier for milk bottles comprising a and having other half of the bottle neck, one end being 'Wire bent' upon itself and having its ends hinged to one end ofthe other Wire and having a hook at its other end adapted to'engage the other end of thefirstwire.

7 '2. A carrier for milk bottles comprising a Wire 'centrally'bent upon itself and having end sections extending laterally and curved to fit and extend substantially half Way about the bottle neck, said ends terminating, one in a pivot eye and the other in an out- Wardly extending hook, the main or shank part of this Wire extending upward to form a handle, and a complement-a1 Wire having one end hinged in the eye at one end of the otherwire and adapted to fit about the other half of the bottle neck and at its other half of the bottle neck and at its other end having a hook adapted to engage the hook at the other end of the first named Wire, said C0111- plemental Wire being centrally engaged with the handle part of the first named wire.

Signed at Seattle, lVashington, this 14th day of September, 1918.

CHARLES DUTCHER.

copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents eaeh, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

' Washington, D. G. 

